Maryland Historical Society
Library of Maryland History
Oral History Collections
OH 8101-8150
OH. 8101
PETER MARUDAS (1937-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Chief administrative assistant
to Mayor Theodore R. McKeldin and
Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro
111.
Influences of Theodore
McKeldin; his religion; Republican party as the
party of Lincoln; Judge
Simon Sobeloff as one of McKeldin's chief
advisors.
Interviewer: Paula Rome
1976
25 pp. 50 minutes
OH. 8102 JUDGE ROBERT
B. WATTS (1922-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Judge of the Supreme Bench
of Maryland; worked under Lillie May
Jackson as a law student
at the University of Maryland.
Voter registration campaign;
Charles Houston's influence; the 1954
Supreme Court civil rights
decision; other legislative battles; personal
reflections on Lillie
May Jackson's personality and character; the signifi-
cance of Gov. Theodore
R. McKeldin.
Interviewer: Richard Richardson
1976
39 pp. 1 hour, 10"
OH. 8103 JUDGE HARRY COLE (1922-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Municipal Court Judge.
The 1942 march on Annapolis and his
speech before the House of
Delegates; Lillie May Jackson's support of his
campaign for the State
Senate; Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin as a political
opportunist; and a
comparison with Gov. Sprio Agnew.
Interviewer.- Richard Richardson 1976
3 pp. 35 minutes
OH. 8104 DAVID GLENN (1925-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Assistant Secretary of the State Department
of Human Resources
beginning in 1973 and assistant to Mayor Theodore
R. McKeldin, 1963-
67.
Details of relationship with McKeldin;
McKeldin's motives, methods,
results, and character. Interviewed for Goucher
College class assignment.
Interviewer.- Nancy Krieger 1975
21 pp. 40 minutes
OH. 8105 THELMA TURNER (fl. 1930-50)
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Supervisor of snack bar at Goucher
College.
The lives of working blacks in the
1930s to the 1950s in Baltimore: living
conditions, the effect of World War II, awareness
of Gov. Theodore R.
McKeldin and Dr. Lillie May Jackson, desegregation
of park facilities, the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People, and views
of the civil rights movement as a whole; her "dawning
self-awareness."
Interviewer.- Joy Olgyay 1971
1 1 pp. 45 minutes
OH. 8106 MARSHALL S. JONES, JR. (1932-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Holder of numerous posts in Gov. Theodore
R. McKeldin's administra-
tion.
First meeting with McKeldin in the
late 1950s; 1963 gubernatorial
campaign; the Community Relations Commission of
1963; the Board of
Elections in 1965; City Hall and its role in the
civil rights movement; the
problems of the Republicans- crime statistics.
Interviewed for the training
class of the McKeldin-Jackson Project.
Interviewer: Brenda McCauley 1976
15 pp. 45 minutes
OH. 8107 WALTER LORD (1917-
Maryland Artists Series
Author of Dawn's Early Light (New
York: Norton, 1972) and numerous
other books.
Growing up in Roland Park in Baltimore;
the Gilman School; his first
literary venture-editing The Freemantle Diary
(Boston: Little, Brown,
1954); favorite themes;
past and present quality of historical research; the
relevance and readability
of history.
Interviewer: Randy Beehler
1976
30 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8108 ALBERT DESALVO
(fl. 1976)
Director of the Citizens
Planning and Housing Association.
Membership of the association;
goals and accomplishments of the
transportation committee;
preparation of the Bawlamer guide book; de-
scription of a "Plastic
Liberal"; Baltimore neighborhoods; a recent spin-
off organization of the
Citizens Planning and Housing Association.
Interviewer: Alice Jewell
1976
1 p. 30 minutes
OH. 8109 FRANCES MORTON
FROELICHER (MRS. HANS,
JR.), (1912- )
Founder and executive
director, 1945-69, of the Citizens Planning and
Housing Association.
Baltimore Housing Authority;
the "Baltimore Plan"; the Department
of Housing and Community
Development; the Mount Royal Improve-
ment Association; her
philosophy of housing, planning, and the use of
volunteers; Hans Froelicher;
Pleasanton Conquest; Mayor William Don-
ald Schaefer.
Interviewer: Alice Jewell
1976
68 pp. 2 hours, 20"
OH. 8110 MRS. ENOLIA MCMILLAN
(1904-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
President of the Baltimore
chapter of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored
People, beginning in 1970.
Early years; educational
background; reorganization of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People in 1954; McKeldin
and civil rights role
of black women; Twenty-Fifth Street School; real
estate held by Lillie
May Jackson; cooperation between the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People and the Urban
League.
Interviewer: Richard Richardson
1976
36 pp. 1 hour, 40"
OH. 81 11 EARLE POORBAUGH
(I 900-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Special assistant to Gov.
Theodore R. McKeldin.
McKeldin's campaigns,
personality, attitudes on civil rights and death
penalty.
Interviewer: Richard Richardson
1976
2 pp. 1 hour, 15"'
OH. 8112 DAVID GLENN (1925-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Assistant secretary of
the State Department of Human Resources begin-
ning in 1973; assistant
to Theodore R. McKeldin as Mayor, 1965-67.
Lengthy, basic background material
for civil rights history in Maryland.
jail Board; Community Relations
Commission; Gov. Theodore R. Mc-
Keldin and Lillie May Jackson; work
in civil rights with employment
drives in the 1950s; Jackson-Mitchell
alliance; public accommodations
drive; Omnibus Civil Rights Bill;
Lillie May Jackson; general commentary
on leadership.
Interviewer: Paula Rome 1976
122 pp. 3 hours, 30"
OH. 8113 MARSHALL BRIGHT, SR. (1903-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Community Relations Director, Baltimore
chapter, the National Asso-
ciation for the Advancement of Colored People.
Civil rights issues within the United
States Postal Service (National
Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees); family
friendship with Lillie
May Jackson; church roles; National Association
for the Advancement of
Colored People and Urban League relations; Congress
of Racial Equality;
Freedom House; the future of civil rights.
Intervz'ewer: Richard Richardson 1976
4 pp. 50 minutes
OH. 8114 CLIFTON JONES (1910-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Sociologist at Howard University.
The nature of discrimination in Baltimore;
housing problems; his
appointment by Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin to the
Advisory Committee
for State Employment Commission, 1954; the Housing
Act of 1949;
nursing home desegregation. Interviewed in training
class for McKeldin-
Jackson Project.
Interviewer: Nancy Krieger 1975
3 pp. 40 minutes
OH. 8115 GLENN GROSSMAN (1950-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Civil rights activist in 1968, while
student at Johns Hopkins University.
Done as a practice interview for the McKeldin-Jackson
Project.
1976
6 pp. 1 hour
Tape closed
OH. 8116 H. WARREN BUCKLER (1906-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Baltimore City Councilman for the
Fifth District and a practicing
lawyer.
Personal involvement with picketing
at Ford's and Lyric Theatres;
unsuccessful lawsuits in Prince George's County
against neighborhood
schools; Citizens Planning and Housing Association;
Gov. Theodore R.
McKeldin and Lillie May Jackson relationship;
perspective on McKeldin
and the future of civil rights without McKeldin.
Interviewer: Ellen Paul 1976
3 pp. 55 minutes
OH. 8117 LOUISE KERR HINES (1916-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Plaintiff in the Enoch Pratt
Free Library suit to integrate training
classes in 1943.
Charles Houston as her lawyer;
participation in the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People activities;
work with the Baltimore
Afro-American and its editor, Carl Murphy;
the tenacity of Lillie May
Jackson in the civil rights cause; the working
relationship between Lillie
May Jackson and Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin.
Interviewer: Leroy Graham 1976
2 pp. 45 minutes
OH. 8118 CHESTER L. WICKWIRE (1913-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Chaplain at the Johns Hopkins
University.
His involvement in the desegregation
at Northwood Theatre with
Morgan State students and at other places
of public accommodations; the
Congress of Racial Equality; Walter Carter;
the Black Panthers; Gov.
Theodore R. McKeldin.
Interviewer.- Michael Louis
1976
6 pp. 1945
OH. 8119 THOMAS B. D'ALESANDRO, III (1929-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Attorney and mayor of Baltimore,
1967-71.
Characteristics of Gov. Theodore
R. McKeldin and Baltimore politics,
especially in the 1960s; his father's political
influence and appointments
in City Hall; reactions to Omnibus Civil
Rights Bill, 1964; civil rights as
Theodore R. McKeldin's primary concern;
important civil rights leaders;
riots in the 1960s; Lillie May Jackson;
the Inner Harbor plan.
Interviewer: Richard Richardson
1976
27 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8120 DR. CHARLES E. WATTS (1899-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Dentist, appointed treasurer
of the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People, Baltimore Chapter,
in 1950, by Lillie May
Jackson.
Lillie May Jackson's role in
determining the activities of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored
People; Lillie May Jackson's
and Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin's relationship;
the non-partisanship of
the National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People and of
Lillie May Jackson.
Interviewer: Leroy Graham 1976
1 p. 27 minutes
OH. 8121 SAMUEL HOPKINS (1917-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Investment banker with strong
family background in the abolition
movement in Baltimore and Maryland. Knowledgeable
regarding Mary-
land history and civil rights.
Mentions many supporters of
civil rights and discusses characters and
personalities of Lillie May Jackson and
Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin as
personal friend of each.
Interviewer: Leroy Graham 1976
28 pp. 50 minutes
OH. 8122 FRIEDA COLEMAN (1923-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Employee of Family and Children's
Society.
Early days of the Congress of
Racial Equality in Baltimore; picketing
and police response; Col. William A. ("Box")
Harris; Omnibus Civil
Rights Bill of 1964; Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin
and Lillie May Jackson;
the riots of 1968. (Second tape difficult
to hear, but notes are full.)
Interviewer: Susan Conwell 1976
3 pp. 2 hours
OH. 8123 ESTHER LAZARUS (Mrs. Albert Goldman)
(1900-80)
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Department of Public Welfare,
1938-69. Appointed director of that
department by Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin.
Places black civil rights effort
within larger movement of "doing for"
others; compares Governor McKeldin and Lillie
May Jackson support for
and work with the welfare department of
the Waxter Center.
Interviewer: Ellen Paul
1976
2 pp. 45 minutes
OH. 8124 JOHN L. BERRY (1 900-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Appointed as first black police
magistrate by Gov. Theodore R. Mc-
Keldin.
Personal involvement in civil
rights movement; the roles of McKeldin
and Lillie May Jackson; where credit is
due in civil rights struggle. Final
five minutes sealed until 1981.
Interviewer: Ellen Paul 1976
3 pp., with correspondence 50 minutes
OH. 8125 COL. WILLIAM A. ("BOX") HARRIS
(1918-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Assistant to Gov. Marvin Mandel
for community services, beginning in
1973.
"Firsts" in national guard and
police force appointments of blacks; riots
in Baltimore, 1968; appointment as parole
officer and later as United
States marshal under Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin;
American Civil Work-
ers' Union; how blacks utilized the various
government channels under
McKeldin and Mayor Thomas J. D'Alesandro,
Jr.; working with Lillie
May Jackson.
Interviewer: Susan Conwell 1976
53 pp. 1 hour, 50"
OH.8126 VIRGINIA JACKSON KIAH(1911-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Daughter of Lillie May Jackson.
An artist as well as membership
secretary in the 1930s of the National Association
for the Advancement of
Colored People, Baltimore Chapter.
Memories of her mother; Lillie
May Jackson's qualifications to be a
minister; her disapproval of Virginia's
marriage to Calvin Kiah; role of
the "upper crust" in the civil rights movement;
Mary McLeod Bethune
and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Interviewer: Leroy Graham 1976
2 pp. 1 hour
OH.8127 EDWARD N.WILSON (1896-
McKeldln-Jackson Project
Educator. Served with Lillie
May Jackson as trustee of the Sharp Street
Church and at the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People. Conducted police and citizenship
"schools."
Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin and
his religious background; relationship
between Lillie May Jackson and McKeldin.
Interviewer: Leroy Graham 1976
27 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8128 MARION BASCOM (1922-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Minister of the Douglas Memorial
Church.
Forceful argument for black
self-improvement; failings of white Amer-
ica; descriptions of Lillie May Jackson,
Theodore R. McKeldin, and the
role of black churches in the civil rights
movement from the early 1960s.
Interviewer: Richard Richardson
1976
30 pp. 1 hour, 40"
OH. 8129 REV. FRANK L. WILLIAMS (1916-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Minister, Asbury United Methodist
Church.
Influence of Lillie May Jackson;
her character and activities in the
National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People; Gov. Theo-
dore R. McKeldin; Cambridge riots; Urban
League; Ministerial Alliance;
the labor movement; the march on Washington,
D.C.; the Black United
Front.
Interviewer: Michael Louis 1976
22 pp. and additional notes by interviewer 1 hour
OH. 8130 THOMAS M. HUGH (fl. 1950-76)
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Author of a book on the Cambridge
(Maryland) riots and active in the
Maryland civil rights movement in the 1950s.
Assessments of Gov. Theodore
R. McKeldin and Lillie May Jackson;
boycotts; influence of Walter Carter; the
effectiveness of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People
under Lillie May
Jackson's long tenure.
Interviewer: Michael Louis 1976
3 pp. 50 minutes
OH. 8131 VERNON DOBSON (1923-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Minister, Union Baptist Church.
Early years of the civil rights movement
in Baltimore; Dr. Harvey
Johnson-Lillie May Jackson work and leadership
roles; the Ministerial
Alliance; the Black United Front and the 1960s;
Theodore R. McKeldin's
place among Maryland politicians; Parren Mitchell;
the role of the Union
Baptist Church in the civil rights movement.
Interviewer - Michael Louis 1976
25 pp. 1 hour
OH.8132 JUDGE JOHN R. HARGROVE (1923-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Judge, Supreme Bench of Baltimore
City.
Team of Lillie May Jackson and Carl
Murphy in the civil rights
movement; his role in the civil rights cases with
Judge Robert Watts,
Juanita Mitchell, and Thurgood Marshall; insights
into the nature of
Lillie May Jackson's leadership and the attention
it drew from whites;
criticism of Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin.
Interviewer: Michael Louis 1976
7 pp. 50 minutes
OH. 8133 W. GEORGE COLLINS (fl. 1950-78)
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Former journalist for the Baltimore
Afro-American newspaper.
Assessments of Lillie May Jackson's,
Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin's, and
Carl Murphy's roles in the civil rights movement;
the Urban League; the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People; personal
relationship with Lillie May Jackson.
Interviewer.- Michael Louis 1976
5 pp. 1 hour
Not released.
OH.8134 DR. J. E. T. CAMPER (1894-1977)
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Physician.
Early involvement with picketing on
Pennsylvania Avenue and at
telephone company; voter registration with Lillie
May Jackson; 1942
march on Annapolis; roles of Carl Murphy and Lillie
May Jackson;
opinions of Lillie May Jackson; Gov. Theodore
R. McKeldin; National
Associaton for the Advancement of Colored People;
the Urban League;
the Governor's Commission on Problems Affecting
Negroes.
Intervz'ewer: Leroy Graham 1976
52 pp. 2 hours
OH. 8135 JUANITA JACKSON MITCHELL
(1913-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Daughter of Lillie May Jackson.
Personal account of her feelings about
her mother and her mother's
religion in answer to the John F.
Kennedy Library personality questions.
Describes mother as an old-fashioned
Methodist, strict in pursuit of
excellence, a business woman with
a small circle of social contacts, and
living for her church and the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People.
Interviewer: Leroy Graham 1976
2 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8136 LEON SACHS (1907-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Director' Baltimore Jewish Council,
1941-75, and instructor at the
Johns Hopkins University, 1929-41.
Active in community and civil rights
activities.
Fair Employment Practices Law
and legislative fights of the 1950s;
Community Relations Commission under
Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin
with David Glenn; contacts with Lillie
May Jackson and Juanita Jackson
Mitchell; relationship between Jewish
and black communities; character
and mayoral terms of Theodore R. McKeldin,
and his relationship with
Republican party; Lillie May Jackson's
political involvement.
Interviewer: Richard Richardson
1976
85 pp. 3 hours
OH. 8137 SILAS CRAFT (1918-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Educator and school administrator
involved with the civil rights move-
ment in Howard and Montgomery Counties
through the National Asso-
ciation for the Advancement of Colored
People.
Influence of Lillie May
Jackson and Governor McKeldin as "trail
blazers"; school desegregation; blacks
in the military; relationship between
the Congress of Racial Equality and
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People.
Interviewer.- Richard
Richardson 1976
49 pp. 2 hours
OH. 8138 EVELYN BURRELL (1919-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Baltimore Community Relations
Commission, 1967 to date of interview.
Her work with the Black
Panthers, the Black United Front, Freedom
House, and the Baltimore Chapter of
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People; personal
observations of 1936 boycotts;
character of Lillie May Jackson.
Interviewer.- Susan Conwell
1976
33 pp. 1 hour, 40"
OH. 8139 G. DONALD MURRAY (1913-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
First black admitted to the
University of Maryland Law School. Rep-
resented in court by Charles H. Houston, William
Gosnell, and Thurgood
Marshall.
Recalls fight to enter other
graduate schools; Lillie May Jackson's
leadership and work with churches; National Association
for the Advance-
ment of Colored People; legal civil rights cases;
Gov. Theodore R. Mc-
Keldin's appointments.
Interviewer: Ellen Paul
1976
2 pp. 45 minutes
OH. 8140 ELIZABETH MURPHY MOSS (fl. 1938-76)
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Publisher-vice president of
the Baltimore Afro-American and writer for
that newspaper since 1938. Daughter of Carl Murphy.
Relationship between Carl Murphy
and Lillie May Jackson; the Jackson
family; desegregation in Baltimore City schools;
Afro-American support for
civil rights activities; Gov. Theodore R.
McKeldin's appointments.
Interviewer: Leroy Graham
1976
50 pp. 1 hour, 30"
OH. 8141 MARGARET L. DYER (1914-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Secretary of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People, Baltimore Chapter, 1968.
Voter registration drive of
1957-58; personal evaluation of Lillie May
Jackson; election of Enolia McMillan to succeed
Lillie May Jackson in
NAACP; Carl Murphy as a leader in the civil rights
movement; relation-
ship between Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin and Lillie
May Jackson.
Interviewer: Leroy Graham 1976
1 P. 1 hour
OH. 8142 ELIZABETH D. RANDALL (1918-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Secretary for Lillie May Jackson
and the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, 1962-68.
Lillie May Jackson and the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People activities and relationships;
the church's role; statement
of Lillie May Jackson's contribution to civil
rights for blacks.
Interviewer: Leroy Graham 1976
2 pp. 30 minutes
OH.8143 WINIFREDO.BRYSON(1915-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Professor of economics and business
at Morgan State College. Expert on
black businesses.
Lillie May Jackson; his own
early work with the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People as auditor
and board member;
advances in federal savings
and loan associations; landlord exploitation;
Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin.
Interviewer: Leroy Graham
1976
1 p. 1 hour
OH. 8144 SOLOMON LISS
(1915-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
On Supreme Bench of Baltimore
City beginning in 1968 and advisor on
metropolitan affairs to
Mayor Theodore R. McKeldin in 1963.
Public Accommodations
Bill and Equal Employment Act; McKeldin
as sincere and intellectual;
the influence of Judge Simon Sobeloff, Lillie
May Jackson's leadership
and courage; McKeldin and Lillie May Jackson
as compatriots.
Interviewer: Richard Richardson
1976
6 pp. 75 minutes
OH. 8145 VERDA D. WELCOME
(1912-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Maryland state senator.
General direction of civil
rights in Maryland under Lillie May Jackson;
picketing at the Gwynn
Oak Amusement Park; connections inherent in
the black community; various
black factions; Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin
in contrast to Gov. Spiro
Agnew; relationship between blacks and Jews in
Baltimore.
Interviewer: Ellen Paul
1976
34 pp. 1 hour, 15"
OH. 8146 LANE BERK (1922-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Member of the State Human
Relations Commission, the Congress of
Racial Equality, the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored
People, and the Urban
League. Consultant for the United States Civil
Rights Commission.
Personal involvement in
all aspects of the civil rights movement in
Maryland in the 1960s
from sit-ins to Cambridge incidents; the relation-
ships between the women's
movement and the civil rights movement and,
between various factions
within the civil rights movement.
Interviewer: Ellen Paul
1976
60 pp. 1 hour, 50"
OH. 8147 TROY BRAILEY
(1916-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Labor leader and state
senator.
Labor aspects of civil
rights movement; labor and the industrial com-
munity of Baltimore; the
National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People; personal
association with Lillie May Jackson and Gov.
Theodore R. McKeldin;
the Urban League; the march on Washington in
1942.
Interviewer: Michael Louis
1976
26 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8148 J. MARSHALL STEWART (1899-1977)
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Businessman, executive with
Interstate Motor Carrier, and a close
personal friend of Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin.
Personal recollections; the
influence of Mayor William Broening;
McKeldin and the Baltimore Institute of Musical
Arts; McKeldin's atti-
tude, basic philosophy, ambitions, and concern
with civil rights.
Interviewer: Richard Richardson
1976
53 pp. 2 hours
OH. 8149 SUSIE MURPHY (1903-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Civil rights worker for the
National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People.
Anecdotes and recollections
of Lillie May Jackson; vital office workings
of the National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People; the
church's involvement; Lillie May Jackson and Carl
Murphy; the character
of Lillie May Jackson.
Interviewer: Ellen Paul
1976
3 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8150 D. ELDRED RINEHART (1903-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Campaign director for Gov. Theodore
R. McKeldin in 1950 and 1954
and an active Republican.
McKeldin's role in the Republican
Party; his style with people; his civil
rights activities and appointments.
Interviewer: Ellen Paul
1976
2 pp. 40 min
